Individuality

For our duet the thing that still intrigues us the most is the idea of individuality. How one person can be completely different from the other, in personalities, likes and dislikes, perspectives...Can individuality be maintained during a duet consisting of two different people? Is anything lost because of this? We began to work through different choreographic processes we could use to show off our uniqueness or possibly our lack due to a duet. We did various things: Contact Improvisation; can we keep our individuality in such close proximity to another? Working with a same phrase and then going away and developing it ourselves before coming back together and seeing the differences. We also went to the same place and drew our own scores on what we could see, feel, hear etc. We then worked seperately but together with improvisation based on our scores. What I found the most interesting about this was when we did this in a studio we both ended up choosing the floor as our stimulus from our score. Yet, whilst I chose the patterns of the wood and worked with these, Alex worked with the surface of the floor and how smooth it is.